What gets me is the poor judgement of so many people who became victims of the greatest blackmailer in history. Steven Pinker proved himself completely devoid of real guile but he is still publishing books about human nature.
(People are also upset abt PG & his wife doubling down on sama. Ofc I don't know much about these guys apart from hearsay, but the "public" rage is similar. Dark traits are associated with agency, the "elites" just happen to rationalize this bellyfeel better?)
Purely based on bellyfeel, there's something deep here..
Related to informal rules/institutions: these might be ways to filter out high Ds ..?
Building a framework to understanding false negatives/false positives with respect to different systems of rules would be the goal. Social proof is one such,surely there is some better tradeoff?
> His public statements, urging the MAGA faithful to move on from Epstein, come across as an attempt to shut down discussion rather than encourage transparency.
That's all he can do. Just hope people forget or grow bored of nothing changing. How do you have your AG say there are thousands of hours of CSAM video and then not follow that up with, "... and here are the indictments".
And it will probably work. The faithful are pretty faithful.
They really, really wanted the Epstein files because they're convinced that a lot of their enemies are in there, and there's a pretty good chance that they're correct about that.
They'll hate to lose that, but they don't really care that the reason for it (that some of the people they support are also in it) is obvious. It has nothing to do with the victims; it's solely about punishing their opponents.
So it was a useful political tool, and it's not as hard to jettison as you might expect. It doesn't stir up cognitive dissonance because the claimed reasons for interest are not the same as the real ones.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 29.6 ms ] thread(People are also upset abt PG & his wife doubling down on sama. Ofc I don't know much about these guys apart from hearsay, but the "public" rage is similar. Dark traits are associated with agency, the "elites" just happen to rationalize this bellyfeel better?)
Purely based on bellyfeel, there's something deep here..
Related to informal rules/institutions: these might be ways to filter out high Ds ..?
Building a framework to understanding false negatives/false positives with respect to different systems of rules would be the goal. Social proof is one such,surely there is some better tradeoff?
That's all he can do. Just hope people forget or grow bored of nothing changing. How do you have your AG say there are thousands of hours of CSAM video and then not follow that up with, "... and here are the indictments".
They really, really wanted the Epstein files because they're convinced that a lot of their enemies are in there, and there's a pretty good chance that they're correct about that.
They'll hate to lose that, but they don't really care that the reason for it (that some of the people they support are also in it) is obvious. It has nothing to do with the victims; it's solely about punishing their opponents.
So it was a useful political tool, and it's not as hard to jettison as you might expect. It doesn't stir up cognitive dissonance because the claimed reasons for interest are not the same as the real ones.